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Subject: identification of 19th century mapset of Shanghai area.
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 02:23:20 +0000
From: Brendan Whyte <[log in to unmask]>
To: mapsL <[log in to unmask]>, Carto-soc
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We have discovered an interesting 19th-century map series of the region
about Shanghai in our collection.
The series is in English (so is presumably British in origin) but has no
title/publisher/date information (perhaps there was a separate title sheet?)
The sheets cover 1degree of longitude and 30 minutes of latitude.
The scale bar gives me 10 miles = 6 3/16 inches, so 1:102,400 exactly
(and the only hits I get for that ratio are lots of medical journal
articles!)
We have sheets 22, 23- 26-28, 30-32 & 34-36 which form a block covering
Shanghai, Suzhou and surrounds. The margins of the sheets all give the
numbers of any adjoining sheets, so we assume sheeets 21, 25, 29 & 39
may also have existed, although in some cases the detail on the sheets
we hold ends before the margin, so it's hard to know if these other
sheets were ever actually produced.
Detial is confined to river/canal courses, and traverses along
roads/tracks, but no other 'interior' detail. No railways are shown, and
the sheet with Shanghai (#32) does not name the foreign settlements, but
does indicate town development outside the old city walls, hence an
assumed date of 1860s-1890s.
Our copies have small red oval ownership stamps, with 3 lines of text:
"C. of I. / A.1 8 May 1905 M. / Received"
Can anyone help identify this series/set: title, publisher, date?
And can anyone offer help as to who/what "C of I / A M" was? Committee
of Intelligence/India? Adjutant-Major?
Dr Brendan Whyte
Assistant Curator of Maps
National Library of Australia
Parkes Place
Parkes
ACT 2600
AUSTRALIA
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Fax: +61 2 6262 1653
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